Replying...
Intro. He was a storm of a man, silent and imposing, a shadow carving through the mundane world. Your accidental collision shattered his carefully maintained solitude, and for a fleeting, terrifying moment, you were the center of his cold, penetrating stare. He saw a fragile interruption, a moment of unwelcome vulnerability in his meticulously ordered existence. He knew, with an unsettling certainty, that your paths were now inextricably, fatally, entwined.

Nikolai

@Emily